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Is Redirecting Subsidies to Stay-At-Home Parents the Right Move?

Is Redirecting Subsidies to Stay-At-Home Parents the Right Move?

Kurt Schlichter is back for another episode of "Stream of Kurtiousness!" Become a VIP member today to get exclusive access to...

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Kurt Schlichter

'Trump Power Plant' Coming to Fayette County, the Largest Investment in Its History

'Trump Power Plant' Coming to Fayette County, the Largest Investment in Its History

UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania — Scott Dunn did not get a call from Washington. Instead, he received calls from his constituents. The chairman of the...

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Salena Zito

When the Supreme Leader Speaks, Who Still Listens?

When the Supreme Leader Speaks, Who Still Listens?

Mojtaba Khamenei inherited the most powerful office in the Islamic Republic. Yet six months into his tenure, a question once considered unthinkable is...

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Struan Stevenson

Philanthropy Will Be the Loser If California's Billionaire Tax Initiative Passes

Philanthropy Will Be the Loser If California's Billionaire Tax Initiative Passes

California's proposed billionaire tax contains a remarkable rule. A billionaire who loses $1 billion at a casino can reduce his billionaire-tax...

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Hank Adler

25 Years Later and We Need to Talk Truth

25 Years Later and We Need to Talk Truth

Nothing has changed for the better with respect to the Religion of Peace. I personally do not believe that facts can be racist. If blacks have an...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Never Forget 9/11

Never Forget 9/11

I was sitting in my home office not far from the Pentagon when it happened. The TV behind me had the sound lowered, but I suddenly became aware of a...

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Cal Thomas

Thomas Jefferson Warned Us About the Media

Thomas Jefferson Warned Us About the Media

We all know that the American “mainstream,” “corporate” media cannot be trusted. Well, they can be trusted to always Polly-parrot the...

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Mark Lewis

No, Abdul, My Kids Are Not 'All of Our Kids'

No, Abdul, My Kids Are Not 'All of Our Kids'

Leftists are coming for your kids. They always have been, so that’s not breaking news, but you have to be reminded of this on occasion so no one...

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Derek Hunter

Labor Day and the Dignity of Work

Labor Day and the Dignity of Work

Labor Day arrives each year as summer begins to loosen its grip. Families gather, grills are lit, and millions of Americans enjoy a well-earned day of...

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Armstrong Williams

The Myth of the 'Vital' Illegal Immigrant Worker

The Myth of the 'Vital' Illegal Immigrant Worker

Propped up by the fakestream media, the Left can’t stop repeating its long-running lie that illegal immigration is an economic necessity. We are...

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Jeff Davidson

#SheLOVEsHerBabies

#SheLOVEsHerBabies

There is something radically askew in the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, and it burned me from the beginning even before I could name what...

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Kevin McCullough

How the Left Turned Into a Cult

How the Left Turned Into a Cult

Years ago, no one would have imagined the Democrats weakening laws against child molesters, promoting men to compete against women in biological...

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Rachel Alexander

An 'Honor Killing' for the Democrat Party

An 'Honor Killing' for the Democrat Party

If the Democrat Party does not remove the growing shame of the rise of Islamists within it, it will become a victim of it. And so will we all. There...

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Jonathan Feldstein

Pax Silica’s Foundry School to Train Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

Pax Silica’s Foundry School to Train Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs

Foundry School is yet another good idea coming to fruition as part of the Trump Administration’s mission to reindustrialize America in the wake of...

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Duggan Flanakin

More and More Germans Are Leaving Their Country

More and More Germans Are Leaving Their Country

Twenty-one percent of young Germans between the ages of 14 and 29 are making concrete plans to leave Germany. Forty-one percent can at least imagine...

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Dr. Rainer Zitelmann

Labor Day Was Never Supposed to Be a Union Rally

Labor Day Was Never Supposed to Be a Union Rally

Most Americans could tell you three things about Labor Day: it's the unofficial end of summer, it's a good excuse for a cookout, and...

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Dan Remmenga

Courageous Juror Restores Faith in the Justice System

Courageous Juror Restores Faith in the Justice System

In the latest “trial of the century,” Lindsay Clancy faced first-degree murder charges in the deaths of her three young children, Cora, a...

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Jeff Crouere

Maryland's Community Trust Act: Great Branding, Terrible Bet

Maryland's Community Trust Act: Great Branding, Terrible Bet

Jefferson Amaya-Ayala was 14. Someone he trusted lured him into a park in Prince George's County last August, and by November investigators had...

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Jay Rogers

Islamophobia

Islamophobia

"The process of settlement is a kind of 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the words' meaning. The Ikhwan [Muslim...

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Allen West

The Maywood Academy High School Melee, Eight Years Later

The Maywood Academy High School Melee, Eight Years Later

[Editor's note: a video linked to this story contains profane language and fighting.] Social media is flooded with confrontation videos: high...

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Arthur Schaper

The Two-State Delusion

The Two-State Delusion

There can only be one state, and for the safety of the Western world, it had better be Israel. What land belongs to whom? During the Ottoman Empire,...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

What Makes Palestinians So Special?

What Makes Palestinians So Special?

As we approach the 25th anniversary of 9/11, expect an influx of “think pieces” about how the “Muslim community” has been impacted since 19...

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Derek Hunter

You Can Fight Back Against the Regime Media

You Can Fight Back Against the Regime Media

The Washington Post has not yet apologized for its false insinuations against me, which have resulted only in it embarrassing itself and validating me...

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Kurt Schlichter

The Pink People Problem

The Pink People Problem

Cora Clancy was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months. I started there because apparently somebody has to. Their mother, Lindsay Clancy,...

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Kevin McCullough

Why Mexico's Future Isn't With China

Why Mexico's Future Isn't With China

Anybody who has ever read my articles or heard my show knows I’m an America-first guy, so it may come as a shock that I'd be concerned with...

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Chris Salcedo

A Cease-Fire Is Not Peace: America Must Understand Iran

A Cease-Fire Is Not Peace: America Must Understand Iran

As the world bids goodbye to summer 2026, Iran wants to revisit the month of June. That is, it wants to return to the terms of the June ceasefire...

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Dr. Alex McFarland

Mr. President, You Asked When the Iranian People Will Rise Up. They Never Stopped Fighting.

Mr. President, You Asked When the Iranian People Will Rise Up. They Never Stopped Fighting.

On September 1, President Trump asked a question that deserves a direct answer: “When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?” Mr....

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Marziyeh Amirizadeh

UBI Is a Trap

UBI Is a Trap

If Democratic Socialists get their way, they will take the labor out of Labor Day and replace it with a guaranteed government check. Politicians, tech...

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Jennifer Oliver Oconnell

I Lived Under a Red-Green Alliance. I Know What Comes Next Here.

I Lived Under a Red-Green Alliance. I Know What Comes Next Here.

How could I know the army officers standing at the office door were harbingers of today’s Red-Green Alliance between socialists and radical Muslims?...

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Michael Youssef

OK, JD, Have It Your Way

OK, JD, Have It Your Way

The sitting vice-president can’t separate himself from views that he also shares. Do you remember the famous “slap” at the Academy Awards? Will...

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Alan Joseph Bauer

Christian Org Offers Disaster Relief in Nepal, Expecting Rising Deaths From Disease, Displacement

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Heartlander News

Frederic Bastiat on the Purpose of Law

Frederic Bastiat on the Purpose of Law

I don’t know who Krzysztof Szczawinski is, and couldn’t pronounce his name if my life depended upon it. I only know he seems to be a pretty smart...

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Mark Lewis

A Quick Bible Study Vol. 336: Earthquakes Beyond the Gospels; What the New Testament Says

A Quick Bible Study Vol. 336: Earthquakes Beyond the Gospels; What the New Testament Says

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are available here. The first 56 volumes are compiled in the book "Bible Study For...

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Myra Kahn Adams

Eleven Angry Idiots (and One Hero)

Eleven Angry Idiots (and One Hero)

It’s only fitting that Gloria Steinem died the same week the personification of her existence faced a hung jury. “You’ve come a long way,...

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Derek Hunter

An Illusion of Online Safety Fails Both Parents and Kids

An Illusion of Online Safety Fails Both Parents and Kids

Age-verification laws often create a false sense of security that tech-savvy teens often bypass. If we want to keep kids safe online, lawmakers must...

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Bojan Lazarevski

Drones Are Changing Warfare, but They Are Not Replacing Artillery: Lessons From Ukraine

Drones Are Changing Warfare, but They Are Not Replacing Artillery: Lessons From Ukraine

A low-cost first-person-view drone catches up with a tank or armored vehicle and destroys it. Another piece of expensive military equipment is lost,...

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Hennadii Khirhii

Parents Must Be Their Own School Investigators

Parents Must Be Their Own School Investigators

After investigating more than 250 school districts in Republican states, I arrived at an unavoidable conclusion: no family should send their child to...

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Adam Guillette

Blue States Are Shutting Local Police Out of 287(g). Red States Show Why That’s a Mistake.

Blue States Are Shutting Local Police Out of 287(g). Red States Show Why That’s a Mistake.

Back in April, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul described her proposal to ban local law enforcement agencies statewide from participating in the Department...

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Selene Rodriguez

The Big Lie

The Big Lie

We are now more than halfway through the 2020s, which have proven to be a decade of profound destabilization. The end of the pandemic circa 2022, now...

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Neeraja Deshpande

Forgiveness – A Jewish and a Christian Perspective

Forgiveness – A Jewish and a Christian Perspective

During the Hebrew month of Elul, immediately preceding and leading up to the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, it is the season when Jews...

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Jonathan Feldstein

An Offer States Can't Refuse

An Offer States Can't Refuse

Vito Corleone built an empire on one rule: take my money and play by my terms. On September 1, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel...

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Jay Rogers

One Legitimate Vote, per Citizen, per Election

One Legitimate Vote, per Citizen, per Election

Focus on the mid-term elections, now less than two months away, is heating up. As always, the Left erroneously claims that the Right seeks to suppress...

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Jeff Davidson

Red White and Blue vs. Red and Green

Red White and Blue vs. Red and Green

The American Left once embraced Marxist terrorist groups like the Puerto Rican terrorist group Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN), which, to...

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Joe Connor

The Turnout Imperative: Why Michigan Republicans Must Mobilize Low-Propensity Voters in 2026

The Turnout Imperative: Why Michigan Republicans Must Mobilize Low-Propensity Voters in 2026

Michigan remains one of the country’s most important battleground states. In 2024, Donald Trump flipped Michigan by roughly 1.4 points, with a...

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Samuel Arena

The Commerce Department Must Finish Its Patent Reform

The Commerce Department Must Finish Its Patent Reform

Nearly a year ago, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposed reforms to curb repeat challenges to patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, or...

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Ken Blackwell

Trump's Drug Deals Are Working. Here's What Could Make Them Work Even Better.

Trump's Drug Deals Are Working. Here's What Could Make Them Work Even Better.

President Donald Trump promised lower healthcare costs, and he's bringing lower healthcare costs. This week, Trump announced more voluntary deals...

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Renee Ellmers

Roy Cooper Put Far-Left Politics Over Female Athletes Like Me

Roy Cooper Put Far-Left Politics Over Female Athletes Like Me

Four years ago this week, I stepped onto a court fully expecting to compete in another high school volleyball match. Instead, I left with an injury...

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Payton McNabb

Mother Teresa Will Show You What It's Like

Mother Teresa Will Show You What It's Like

A beaming smile comes from a man on a thin mattress on the floor. He looks malnourished. And I know he's dying because he's at a...

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Kathryn Lopez

Defending Arizona's Right to Verify Citizenship at the Ballot Box

Defending Arizona's Right to Verify Citizenship at the Ballot Box

Only citizens are allowed to vote in federal elections. That should not be a controversial statement — yet the Ninth Circuit’s ruling in Mi...

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Jordan Sekulow

What Is Wrong With These Women Supporting Lindsay Clancy?

What Is Wrong With These Women Supporting Lindsay Clancy?

Kurt Schlichter is back for another episode of "Stream of Kurtiousness!" Become a VIP member today to get exclusive access to...

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